Skripsi
A CORRELATION BETWEEN STUDENTS’ MASTERY OF ENGLISH PAST TENSES AND THEIR COMPETENCE IN WRITING RECOUNT TEXT (A Correlative Study on the Tenth Grade Students of SMK Satya Praja 1 Petarukan in the Academic Year of 2014/2015)
Key word: Past tense, Writing, Competence, Recount.
Writing is one of the language skills that should be acquired in learning a language. Writing also means process of communication that conveys ideas and opinion in a written form which suggests that the writer and readers should have similar understanding of what is written.
The purpose of the research is to find out whether there is correlation between students’ mastery of English past tense and their competence in writing recount text on the Tenth Grade Students of SMK Satya Praja 1 Petarukan in the Academic Year of 2014/2015.
The population in this research is taken from the tenth grade students of SMK Satya Praja 1 Petarukan, which consists of 159 students divided into 4 classes. In this research, the writer used one-group design research,it takes one class as the sample of the research. The sample is taken by using cluster ramdom sampling technique, it is X AK II which has the total number of 30 students.
The data was analyzed by using product moment formula, it was obtained that the rtest was 0,790 and the value of rtable with N = 30 and the 5% significance level was 0,361. It means that rtest was higher than rtable (0,790 > 0,361). where the score 0,790 is between 0,61 – 0,80. It means that the correlation between students past tense mastery and their competence in writing recount text at the tenth grade student of SMK Satya Praja 1 Petarukan was in high correlation. The writer concluded that there was positive and significant correlation between students past tense mastery and their competence in writing recount text.
Based on the result of data analysis it shows that rtest higher than rtable (0,790 > 0,361). Therefore the hypothesis of the research was accepted. It means that there was positive and significant correlation between students past tense mastery and their competence in writing recount text of the tenth grade student of SMK Satya Praja 1 Petarukan in academic year 2014/2015.
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